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Corry’s Farm

Co. Cork

Martin Corry was a senior member of the Irish Republican Army in County Cork during the Irish War of Independence (1919–21). He took the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War (1922–23) and was a founder member of Fianna Fáil in 1926. He was among Fianna Fáil’s first TDs after the June 1927 general election and was returned at every election until he stood down at the 1969 election.

Corry was active in farming issues, serving as Chairman of the Beet Growers’ Association in the 1950s. At the time of his death in 1979 he was still an active member of the Cork County Council, where he was first elected in 1924 and served continuously for 55 years.

In 2007, it was reported that Corry's farm had been the suspected site of the execution and burial place of several people considered to be pro-British agents, spies, or informers.